Quotes About Universe

The Quantum Activist

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), p. 122.

Theism, however, teaches that not only is there a moral universe but there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments are measured. God himself-his character of goodness (holiness and love)-is the standard.

But nothing external to God can possibly constrain him. If he chooses to restore a broken universe, it is because he "wants" to, because, for example, he loves it and wants the best for it. But he is free to do as he wills, and his character (Who He Is) controls his will.

universes fashioned by words and concepts that work together to provide a more or less coherent frame of reference for all thought and action.5

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

It has been speculated that Poe's obsession with premature burial was due to necrophilia or that he used it as a metaphor for loneliness--- a sentient corpse buried alive by his unfeeling peers in the unfathomable tomb of the universe.

Physics is all about order and design. About laws that govern the forces making up our universe. We didn't create them. We just discovered them and learned how to use them. It is now my humble opinion that when you have laws, you have a lawgiver. When you have overwhelming evidence of intelligent design, you have an intelligent designer. Unless such a conclusion gets in the way of your personal autonomy and career.

The universe give us power but it also have the strength to destroy everything.

Here's the way the law works," Carter said, "since it's clear you aren't smart enough to know. First, there's an investigation where we gather evidence. Once we have evidence, we arrest people. I don't care if you're mayor of the universe. You still can't direct me to arrest someone without evidence. So either shut up and let me do my job correctly or get in there and clean your own damned kitchen.

the universe keeps things balanced by placing those with the abilities to right wrongs in the path of evil. And no matter where you're standing, that path is going to run right through you.

There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.

We lay on the short grass and looked at the sky, waiting for the tide to go out. Even as we watched the clouds shrank and disappeared, we could see right into the universe.

Changes in the heavens wrought changes on the earth.

The concept of privacy is a sort of screen to hide the fact that almost none is possible in a social universe.

we are the product of this universe and I think it can be argued that the entire cosmic code is imprinted in us. Just as our genes carry the memory of our biological ancestors, our logic carries the memory of our cosmological ancestry. We are not just imposing human-centric notions on a cosmos independent of us. We are progeny of this cosmos and our ability to understand it is an inheritance.

Black holes are a gift, both physically and theoretically. They are detectable on the farthest reaches of the observable universe. They anchor galaxies, providing a center for our own galactic pinwheel and possibly every other island of stars. And theoretically, they provide a laboratory for the exploration of the farthest reaches of the mind. Black holes are the ideal fantasy scape on which to play out thought experiments that target the core truths about the cosmos.

Sure one could argue the naturalist's case that the mind experiences an external reality in which it participates. But how can this account really satisfy us, Olga? One could equally well argue that all experiences is highly subjective, that the only thing we really have is the image, the smell, the taste, and all of our assertions about the universe are constructions of the human mind.

This world extends beyond this room, Adele. There are the streets of Vienna and beyond that Europe and beyond that a globe in space in orbit around a star in a universe. But how do I know that for sure? I cannot see the globe spinning on its axis right now as I speak to you. How can I be sure? I can be sure because it's logical; the mathematics is sound and respected by the orbits of the planets. I can verify it's true, not by looking at it, but by thinking about it.

It's okay to applaud the laws of physics.

I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I'd love nothing more than to drink it.

Without a belief in a fair and moral universe, a sense of control of one's fate, a coherent sense of self, and a continuous personal narrative, life makes no sense. Living becomes a pointless exercise of getting through the day. People reeling from trauma are thrown into a crisis of meaning that goes far beyond disillusionment; they are plunged into an abyss of despair."18

My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings.

Paradoxically, the occult can often become the concern, in different modes, of both the least intelligent and also the most aberrantly intelligent human beings, with those soundly in the middle of the bell curve often unable to tell the difference between genuine intellectual exploration of the universe's unfathomable and mysterious structure and pre-literate superstition.